At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Brian Eno

She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.
Bille August

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
Dick Cheney

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
Jessica Savitch

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.
David Cronenberg

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
Judy Chicago

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.
Roy Ayers

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
George Gurdjieff

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
Angela Carter

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
Bob Woodward

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.
Rem Koolhaas

But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.
Jerry Harrison

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
Arthur Erickson

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
Beck

My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.
Kylie Minogue

I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
Martin H. Fischer

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
Theodore Bikel

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Michael Crawford